The Loyola University Community Action Program and the office of Alumni and Parent Relations will host the seventh annual National Wolves on the Prowl Community Service Day Saturday, Nov. 8.
A tradition Student Government Association and the office of Alumni and Parent Rel began in the 1990s, Wolves on the Prowl has grown into a national day of service where Loyola’s former and current students can continue the Ignatian tradition of service to the community in seven cities across the U.S.
Alumni chapters in Boston, Los Angeles and Washington volunteered their time Saturday, Nov. 1. Chapters in Tampa, Fla, St. Louis, New York and New Orleans will have their turn Nov. 8.
Volunteers will work on five simultaneous projects this year. This includes a field day at Loyola for students of the Good Shepherd School, a charter school for underprivileged children downtown that follows the nativity school model.
Volunteers will paint at Andrew H. Wilson Charter School Uptown.
Students Moving Into the Lives of the Elderly will plant potted plants with seniors of the Uptown Shepherd Center, an event that happens one Saturday out of every month.
Volunteers will be cleaning up at a local park in conjunction with the New Orleans Recreational Department.
Community service also includes giving back to the Loyola community as well. Volunteers will clean up and paint the unused space in the Danna Center, which will be used as a break area for WFF custodial staff.
“It’s just one way to show our appreciation to the workers that give us so much,” Josh Daly, A’04 and director of LUCAP, said.
After becoming a national endeavor in 2000, Wolves on the Prowl was still a small operation in New Orleans until David Robinson Morris, A’ 06 and associate director of alumni and parent relations, added six simultaneous projects during the 2004 Wolves on the Prowl.
“The idea that other alumni in different cities are doing, in essence, the same thing that you are doing is moving,” Morris said. “It shows the spirit of community that we have as graduates and students of Loyola.”
He has been a volunteer or organizer for Wolves on the Prowl ever since.
Anyone interested in volunteering should visit http://alumni.loyno.edu/wotpgno or just show up. Organizers will feed volunteers and give them t-shirts as well enjoy the festivities afterwards. Volunteers are needed, since there is limited time to accomplish everything. It’s a great way to live the Jesuit mission of becoming “men and women for others” as well as earn some community service hours.
Jean-Paul Arguello can be reached at [email protected].
